Beyond slavery's shadow : free people of color in the South /

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"On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet more than half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In this deeply researched study, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. demonstrates that from the colonial period thr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Milteer, Warren E., Jr (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Temas:
Free African Americans > Southern States > History.
Free African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions.
Noirs américains affranchis > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Noirs américains affranchis > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Free African Americans
Free African Americans > Social conditions
History of the Americas.
History.
Southern States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet more than half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In this deeply researched study, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. demonstrates that from the colonial period through the Civil War, the growing influence of white supremacy and proslavery extremism created serious challenges for free persons categorized as 'negroes,' 'mulattoes,' 'mustees,' 'Indians,' or simply 'free people of color' in the South. Segregation, exclusion, disfranchisement, and discriminatory punishment were ingrained in their collective experiences. Yet, in the face of attempts to deny them the most basic privileges and rights, free people of color defended their families and established organizations and businesses. Free people of color were both privileged and victimized, both celebrated and despised in a region characterized by social inconsistency. Milteer's analysis of the intersections between hierarchies of wealth, gender, and occupation with ideas promoting white supremacy and discrimination reveals a wide range of social interactions and life outcomes for the South's free people of color and helps to explain societal contradictions that continue to appear in the modern United States"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9781469664415
1469664410
9781469664408
1469664402

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